Senior Product Manager, Autonomous Scientific Instrumentation

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Establish a long-term platform strategy for autonomous-ready scientific instrumentation that aligns with corporate and business unit goals.

• Create systematic market analyses, competitive evaluations, and investment theses to enhance portfolio decisions.

• Develop multi-year roadmaps backed by data-driven prioritization and well-defined financial business cases.

• Collaborate with technology partners to ensure instrument architectures are compatible with advanced computing and acceleration platforms.

• Work with strategic external customers as co-innovation partners to validate the capabilities of autonomous instruments in practical workflows.

• Represent Thermo Fisher in discussions within the ecosystem that influence the future standards for intelligent laboratory systems.

• Lead organized voice-of-customer initiatives to pinpoint significant workflow challenges and autonomy use cases.

• Convert customer insights into prioritized product requirements and unique value propositions.

• Balance immediate commercial prospects with a long-term autonomous platform strategy.

• Create new go-to-market models for autonomous instrumentation, including hardware, software, analytics, and services.

• Develop compelling strategies for customer value creation and improvements in workflow performance.

• Drive adoption strategies that propel broad ecosystem growth.

• Align business units around common architectural standards and shared development priorities.

• Partner with R&D, engineering, regulatory, and operations teams to implement stage-gate development programs.

• Define key performance indicators (KPIs) such as interoperability adoption, workflow integration success, instrument intelligence utilization, and revenue growth.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Life Sciences, or a related field.

• At least 5 years of relevant experience.

• An advanced degree (MBA, MS, or PhD) is preferred.

• Proven experience in driving cross-functional product strategies within the life sciences sector.

• Strong comprehension of analytical and life sciences instrumentation architectures.

• Demonstrated ability to create business cases, financial models, and commercialization strategies for advanced technology platforms.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive remuneration.

• Annual incentive plan bonuses.

• Healthcare coverage.

• Comprehensive range of employee benefits.

• A selection of national medical and dental plans.

• National vision plan, including health incentive programs.

• Employee assistance and family support programs.

• Commuter benefits.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• At least 120 hours of paid time off (PTO).

• 10 paid holidays each year.

• Paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave).

• Accident and life insurance.

• Short- and long-term disability coverage.

• Retirement and savings programs, including a competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan.

• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) that allows eligible colleagues to buy company stock at a discount.